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By Jordan Rau Kaiser Health News An overwhelming majority of Americans favor government action to restrain prescription drug prices, according to a poll released Thursday. Eighty-two percent of those polled said they want Medicare to negotiate prices with the companies, which Congress does not allow. Seventy-eight percent favored limiting the amount companies can charge for […]

By Judith Graham Kaiser Health News Ask Kathy Kenyon about what it’s like to be a family caregiver, and she’ll give you an earful. On several occasions, doctors have treated this accomplished lawyer like she was an interloper — not the person to whom her elderly parents had entrusted health care and legal decision-making. Kenyon wasn’t […]

[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyrq5wrJBRQ[/embedyt] From the Department of Health and Human Services Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the winners of the HHS “A Bill You Can Understand” challenge, a design and innovation challenge to solicit new approaches and draw national attention to a common complaint with the health care system: that medical […]

By Michael Ollove Stateline SALT LAKE CITY — When J.D. Goates was 17 and newly graduated from high school, he decided that he had had enough. His thoughts of suicide, which had begun when he was eight, had become stronger. He was ashamed of being bisexual, especially because his Mormon church told him that homosexuality […]

By Jake Harper, Side Effects Public Media Kaiser Health News Jamie Landrum has been a police officer for two years in District 3 on the west side of Cincinnati. In late August, the city was hit by 174 overdoses in six days. Landrum says officers were scarce. “We were literally going from one heroin overdose, […]

By Sydney Lupkin Kaiser Health News More than a quarter of the Food and Drug Administration employees who approved cancer and hematology drugs from 2001 through 2010 left the agency and now work or consult for pharmaceutical companies, according to research published by a prominent medical journal Tuesday. Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and assistant professor […]

By Micheal Ollove Stateline Although the United States recently experienced a slight drop in maternal deaths, the nation’s maternal mortality rate has risen steeply since 2000 at the same time it fell by more than a third globally. New data from the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research group funded […]

By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News The list of preventive services that women can receive without paying anything out of pocket under the health law could grow if proposed recommendations by a group of mostly medical providers are adopted by federal officials later this year. The draft recommendations, which are subject to public comment until Sept. 30, build upon […]

By Meredith Li-Vollmer Public Health – Seattle & King County A patient at Overlake Medical Center has been diagnosed with a serious type of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease caused by infection from Legionella bacteria. The patient is a male in his 60s with a medical condition that puts him at increased risk to infection. His health condition is reportedly improving. Overlake […]

By Christine Vestal Stateline HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — This city, where the rate of drug overdose deaths is nearly 10 times the national average, has done more than most to fight the heroin and prescription painkiller epidemic. Local police have been diverting drug users to specialized drug courts for treatment. The city opened a syringe […]

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